#and this angle was impossible

[robo-dino-puppy]

nora huntress

hfw face(paint)s 45/?

[very-tired-child]

checkmate.

based on ch 5 of Primum non Nocere by @aughtpunk!!

[corrodedbisexual]

The most adorable metalhead

[tatsumi-rin]

Anyone else thought about this?

With the popularity of Mouthwashing as a game, I've seen people who talk about it talk about the mouthwash itself as a metaphor for Jimmy (and they're definitely correct in their read imo), but dear god NO ONE is talking about it as a potential metaphor for Pony Express itself as a company.

This is an item considered to be an essential. It is a dental hygiene product dentists would generally recommend you have. 99.9% of bacteria gone - but this one is loaded with sugar. Using this is going to be detrimental to its own cause and probably worse than using no mouthwash at all.

Pony Express? No matter your start, it seems like a good, stable job and a promising future. People will always need goods transported to other planets. It even has a cute mascot representing pride in their work that they sell toys of to kids!

Butttttt, the caveats. Oh boy, the caveats. All of those cute images are done to soften the blow of little red pieces of text about how doing things to the point of basically existing means your credits are going to get docked - something that's just as much Aperture Science-esque dark humor as horrible foreshadowing. Late delivery? Docked. Resting in any manner for more than five hours? Docked. Using medical support in any manner? Docked. REPORTING ISSUES TO HR??? MOTHER. FUCKING. DOCKED.

And trying to avoid any of those dockings; those detriments? Pretty much impossible, and that would spell doom for anyone: including members of a certain ship. With every one of those rules, if they survived that payout would be hilariously low. The usual rules; made by out of touch people in fancy suits.

The members of the Tulpar all (mostly) had reasons to be there, even at radically different life stages. Reasons why they needed the work, and reasons why it should fulfill those reasons and enrich their lives.

It was meant to be Jimmy's ticket away from struggling on earth. It was meant to be Daisuke gaining direction in life. It was meant to be Anya finally getting into medical school. It was meant to be Swansea gaining a stable and fulfilling life as he made it into sobriety, and it was meant to be Curly making it further up into his career path with glowing words of praise.

As per capitalism's usual spiel that we were even shown in the game itself via public domain cartoon, taking this job was meant to be joyous opportunity and innovation for their lives; but with so many flaws in the system around them around them - including the words on those posters - just trying to find benefit in the system they needed in order to survive was nothing more than fatal poison. The dead pixel, the sugar, and the 0.1% all working together.

[polterquest]

the kiss of life (1967) but its ... spies

[atane-is-here]

@tolkienhorrorweek

Angband & Utumno

In the elder days Melkor had ordered for another fortress to be built. West of Utumno and closer to the Valar. And deep into the mountain Sauron had built his city of madness. In Angband he was lord and by his side was the lady of secret shadow.

[nanihirunkits]

You are attractive, no matter what you wear.

MY LOVE MIX-UP | EP6

[jojo-oliver]

[ID in alt text] 12/15 of my LGBTQIA+ boots series!

gay (mlm) flag themed💙

I'll be posting 1+ per week until the 1st of pride month 🏳️‍🌈 and then I'll post all of them!

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stickers or prints of this series here

[sleepymim]

Ok so this is going to be my attempt to put all of my thoughts about Silco and Vander and their relationship and how they might achieve reconciliation into one coherent post because I cannot! stop! thinking about them!

As we see in s2e7, reconciliation between them is definitely possible. However, I think it definitely wasn't easy, and it wasn't motivated by a single event like Silco finding Vander's letter or Vi dying. I think a million little things needed to perfectly align for them to find back to one another. As others have already said, and I agree with this, I think the "happy" timeline is a statistical anomaly for them.

So what was needed for them to find back to each other? And like, disclaimer that this is obviously only my own interpretation of events.

First of all, I think one of the prerequisites for reconciliation is that Silco doesn't start working with Singed and doesn't get into Shimmer, which is supported by his eye having healed normally in the alternate timeline.

I also think that Vander's letter could only ever be a starting point for their reconciliation, something that would get them in the same room to talk again. After that, I think they'd still need a long, long time to get back to how things were.

Vi's death imo has absolutely nothing to do with whether they reconcile or not, because in the alternate timeline she dies during what would be Act 1. Silco is already past the point of no retunr here, he doesn't give a shit about Vi or the other kids, he's deep into his Shimmer business. He's literally planning to kill all the kids in episode 3. He would not give a fuck if Vi died in that explosion. If Silco and Vander are to reconcile, it needs to happen pretty soon after the betrayal.

But I think the most important aspects for their reconciliation are violence and ideology.

Obviously the actual betrayal is horrifically violent and traumatizing. Vander actively chose to drown Silco which is just like, such a brutal way to die. He does this because he puts the blame for the bridge fight escalating on Silco. This is unjustified, and the show wants us to know that Vander was in the wrong here. Vander himself admits in s1e3 that he has regretted what he did to Silco since it happened. In general episode 3 in my opinion very clearly communicates that Vander overreacted and that what Siclo did (throwing the first molotov) does not justify Vander's reaction (violent murder).

However! Vander also clearly still thinks Silco is dangerous and despite regretting how he reacted still puts some form of blame on Silco.

In the apology letter, he says the blood is on both their hands. The letter in general is shit considering the weight of what Vander did, and what it shows is that even though Vander feels bad about what he did, he does still put the blame for the bridge fight on Silco.

In act 1, Vander also says there are worse things than enforcers in the Undercity while looking at his brace that covers the scar Silco gave him while escaping. This is, presumably, before he knows Siloc has been funding Shimmer development and getting into human experimentation. He thinks Silco is worse than enforcers based on whatever happened between them in past. With s2, this is explicitly Silco's escalation on the bridge.

So obviously despite the time that has passed and the fact that Vander can admit what he did was unjustified, he does still believe Silco is dangerous based on their differing ideology. Benzo, too, obviously still holds a grudge against Silco for what happened.

So really the crux is that even though Vander feels sorry, he does not change his stance on non-violence being the right way forward for the people of Zaun, and thus he can never truly forgive Silco for what he did on the bridge - he still believes that Silco is responsible and that his own way is the right way.

I think as long as Vander keeps his ideological stance, reconciliation between them isn't possible. From both sides, because Vander thinks Silco's ideals are dangerous, and from Silco's side because he thinks Vander is a coward and a sellout.

Then let's look at Silco's side of things a little bit.

I think there's two aspects to his forgiveness/reconciliation with Vander: the violence and the ideology.

Canon pretty much tells us that Silco is willing and able to forgive the violence Vander inflicted on him. We see this not only in the alternate timeline, where they're obviously close again, but I think s1e3 tells us the same. Silco kidnaps Vander, but still offers him the chance to join him in the fight against Piltover again. I don't want to talk here about Silco's methods at this point in time, but he's obviously willing to put the murder attempt behind them IF Vander is willing to switch to his side again. He even says that his hatred for Vander passed with time. I think this implies that, somehow, eventually, with time, in a nicer timeline Silco could really forgive Vander for trying to kill him.

However, and I think this is the much bigger issue for them, there's still the matter of ideology. Vander betraying their shared goals, turning towards a pacifist, more passive approach to revolution and ultimately striking a deal with Grayson is what really drives the wedge between them.

This is what Silco despises Vander for: For turning his back on violence. Silco encourages Vander's violent tendencies, he wants him to become the person he used to be again, wants him to embrace that part of himself again. I think this supports the assumption that Silco would forgive the violence inflicted against him much easier than Vander abandoning their shared dream. Until the end, he wants Vander to embrace that violence again.

And a Vander who is committed to non-violence is a Vander who stands in the way of Silco's goal of a free Zaun. So as long as Vander stays firm on his ideological stance, Silco is always eventually going to get rid of him. There is no way for them to find back to one another if they remain on opposite sides of the struggle they used to fight together.

This is, I think, the crux of my interpretation of them:

Reconciliation doesn't only depend on Silco coming back to Vander and forgiving him for the violence Vander inflicted upon him. It also depends on Vander coming back to Silco, internalizing that the bridge figth was not Silco's fault, and being willing to compromise his non-violent ideology and take action again for their shared dream.

It's about the two of them coming back to each other.

[therealamperssand]

figure skating!!! alinua and kendal are from @comicaurora

[pagerunner-j]

Decided on a whim to rewatch The Impossible Planet / The Satan Pit, since those episodes seem rather more relevant after all those dire intonations about Sutekh this past week, not to mention a certain recurring voice actor, and...

...yeah, I forgot that this is how it starts.

editing to add:

I just pulled up the commentary track for The Impossible Planet, and lo and behold, here's David Tennant pointing out that the Beast here is voiced by Gabriel Woolf, who voiced Sutekh in Pyramids of Mars, and--I quote--"So there's a sort of link there. And if you want to believe it's the same character, then that's...you're free to do that."

I will indeed be taking that as carte blanche for the time being, thank you.

Guess we'll see how things play out next week. :)

(And another comment re: that particular bit of casting: "I suspect if you're listening to this DVD commentary, then you already knew that." Yeah, well, funny thing about that, David...)

[mjulmjul]

[ckret2]

i know that you prefer Billford, but lately I’ve been wondering what your thoughts on Fiddauthor are?

It's a perfectly respectable ship with a strong canon basis, but it doesn't really do anything for me. Couldn't tell you why, usually I love ships with morally dubious mad scientists/inventors and that ship has two of them. By all accounts it makes no sense. But it just doesn't set my heart on fire.

Maybe because most content I've seen for it is post-show soft wholesome fluff and that doesn't do anything for me? The versions of Ford+Fiddleford I usually see get reinvented for fiddauthor drains out everything I find interesting in their characters and I have a hard time thinking up a compelling version of the ship that doesn't do that.

Or maybe it's because I am into billford and I don't wanna subject the poor humans to a love triangle lmfao; plus it's a whole lot funnier to headcanon that Bill thinks there's a love triangle when actually there's nothing going on and the other two are oblivious to what he thinks.

Although TBOB's just about got me convinced that Fiddleford had an enormous dumb crush that Ford somehow never noticed. Like, you don't painstakingly make a pair of custom gloves and an intricately detailed snow globe for your bestie who doesn't even celebrate Christmas and then go home and forget to get your wife & kid gifts unless something's going on. And a one-sided crush retroactively makes the infamous "it's good to be doing this with a FRIEND" in J3 hilarious.

But "I think there's a high probability something mighta been happening there" is different from being personally interested in exploring it.

[elennemigo]

Benedict congratulates his friend Matt Haig for the publication of his last novel. 📚

[catocappuccino]

U zee being cool and allat... like she always is

+ two random doodles

[eeblouissant]

I can’t be bothered to finish these properly so here you go :’)